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    Airframe Family: North American T-6/AT-6/SNJ Texan / Harvard
    Latest Model:SNJ-5 Texan
    Last Military Serial:43766 USN
    Construction Number:88-15757
    Last Civil Registration:N3242G
    Compressed ID:NA SNJ-5 sn 43766 USN cn 88-15757 c...
    Latest Owner or Location:American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, Dallas, TX

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an AT-6D.

    Circa 1942

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army Air Force with s/n 41-34527.

    Circa 1944

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 43766 as a SNJ-5.

    1963

    To Robert C. Smith, Britt, IA with new c/r N3242G.

    1966

    To Leslie R. Stolle, Seabrook, TX keeping c/r N3242G.

    1968

    To Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation keeping c/r N3242G.

    Converted to a Nakajima B5N Kate replica for the filming of the movie Tora! Tora! Tora! (1968); serial AI-313. Shipped to Honolulu on USS Yorktown with other movie aircraft.

    1969

    Open storage at Long Beach, CA.

    February 1971

    To Tallmantz Aviation Inc, Orange County, CA keeping c/r N3242G.
    Purchased at auction.

    15 May 1973


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: This Val replica was part of the Tallmantz Collection seen at Santa Ana, California in May 1973.

    1985


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Chino Airport, CA.

    10 November 1985


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At John Wayne Airport, CA (a former Tallmantz aircraft)

    1987

    Appeared in the movie Empire of the Sun.

    20 August 1987

    To John V. Rawson Jr, Rocky Hill, NJ keeping c/r N3242G.
    Markings added: AI-313

    By 1993


    Photographer: Corel Photo CD-ROM 1993

    19 August 1995


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Wings of Eagles Airshow at Batavia, New York.

    25 January 2000

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX3242G (AT-6D, 43766) issued.

    March 2000

    Transported by ship.
    Shipped from San Diego, CA to Hawaii.

    2001

    Appeared in the movie Pearl Harbor.

    26 June 2004


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Davenport, IA

    7 November 2010


    Photographer: James Eubanks
    Notes: Warriors and Warbirds Airshow, Monroe NC

    9 December 2010

    To American Air Power Herritage Flying Museum, Midland, TX keeping c/r N3242G.

    October 2013


    Photographer: Mark Kennedy
    Notes: Nakajima B5N Kate (SNJ-5) at Wings Over Houston Airshow, Ellington Field, Houston, Tx. Oct. 2013.

    Based at Commemorative Air Force-Gulf Coast Wing, David Wayne Hooks Memorial Airport (DWH), Houston, TX.
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    Markings Applied: AI-313

    21 April 2017

    To American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, Dallas, TX keeping c/r N3242G.

    6 April 2018


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Space Coast Warbird Airshow, Titusville, FL. Tora! Tora! Tora!

    6 April 2018


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Space Coast Warbird Airshow, Titusville, FL. Tora! Tora! Tora!


    Photographer: Unknown


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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

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